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Chocolate Tart - so good and amazingly rich and smooth
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Easy Chocolate Tart - Bearby style!

A rich and smooth Chocolate tart! Very easy to make!
Course Dessert
Cuisine English
Keyword Chocolate, Chocolate Tart, summer
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Servings 10
Calories 354kcal

Ingredients

  • 1 packet of chilled Sweet Shortcrust pastry or make it yourself if you have the time
  • 300 ml Double Cream
  • 25 g Caster Sugar
  • Pinch of Salt
  • 50 g Butter
  • 200 g good quality Real Chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons milk approx.

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven Gas 4/180°C/350°F.
  • Loose bottomed
  • Take the chilled Sweet Shortcrust Pasty out the fridge and roll out. Line the loose bottomed tin 23cm / 9 inch with the pasty. Try not tot have any cracks or pin over the top of the pastry in the tin and remove the waste pastry.
  • Bake blind (scrunch up some greaseproof paper and put in some rice, or baking beans).
  • Bake for 15 minutes, remove paper and rice and pop back in the oven for a further 10-15 minutes. Make sure its baked on the bottom and golden brown. Leave to cool.
  • In a saucepan add the Double Cream, Caster Sugar and a pinch of Salt and bring to the boil. Watch it! REMOVE from heat - add Chocolate & Butter, keep stirring until it is all blended and smooth.
  • Finally stir in the Milk. Let it cool a little.
  • Pour into the pastry case and leave to cool minimum 3 hours, pop in the fridge overnight.
  • Remove from fridge approx. 30 minutes before you want to devour it!!
  • Dust with Icing Sugar or Cocoa Powder - leave plain or decorate with raspberries! Serve very small portion with single cream, it's rich!!!!

Notes

*** All nutritional information is approximate and intended as a guide 

Nutrition

Calories: 354kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 46mg | Sodium: 182mg | Potassium: 198mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 581IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 43mg | Iron: 3mg